GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 394, 20 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SUN SPOTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Received May 19, 10 o.m. New York, May 19. Several American observatories report that three large and intensely black sun spots were observed yesterday. OBITUARY. Received May 19, 1'1.30 p.m. London, May 19. Obituary.—Madame Viardot Garcia, opera singer. CANADA AND AMERICA. Received May 20, 12.30 a.m. Ottawa, May 19. The Montreal Chamber of Commerce has resolved to ask the Government not to consider the reciprocity treaty with the States. DUELLING. St. Petersburg, May 18. The District Court of St. Petersburg has sentenced M. Juttfhffoff, President of the Duma, to a month's detention in a fortress for fighting a duel with Count Uwaroff. The latter was sentenced to three weeks' arrest in the Central Guard House. SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR. London, May 18. , The Sultan of Zanzibar has lailen ill in London, and has been ordered to a watering place on the Continent. ■ ZULU CHIEF RELEASED. Capetown, May 18. Mankulmana, Dinizulu's indium, lias been released. BRITISH RAILWAY TRAFFIC. London, May 18. Statistics show the following decrease in passenger traffic on the railways of the United Kingdom for 1909:—Firstclass, 1,51)5,103; second-class, 3,325,503; third-class, 8,307,823. LORD SELBORNE. London, May 19. Lord Selborne, ex-Governor of die Transvaal, has sailed for England. STEEL STRIKERS PACIFIED. New York, May 18. The strikers at Bethlehem Steel Works have accepted Mr. Schwab's terms. AN OFFICER'S SUICIDE. | London. May 18. Captain Claude de Crespigny committed suicide with a revolver near Peterborough.